Clemson class destroyers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 142. Chapters: USS Alden, List of Clemson-class destroyers, USS William B. Preston, USS Zane, USS Borie, USS Williamson, USS Sands, USS Tracy, USS Edsall, USS Southard, USS Stewart, USS Yarborough, USS Whipple, USS Woodbury, USS Trever, USS John D. Ford, USS Sicard, USS Sturtevant, USS Noa, USS Humphreys, USS Worden, USS Kane, USS Wasmuth, USS Preble, USS Hovey, USS Goldsborough, USS Welles, USS Stoddert, USS Welborn C. Wood, USS Goff, USS Young, USS Whipple World War II Service, 1941-1945, USS Parrott, Honda Point Disaster, USS Pope, USS Simpson, USS Truxtun, USS Hunt, USS Herndon, USS Long, USS Fox, USS Peary, USS Thornton, USS Barry, USS Perry, USS George E. Badger, USS Paul Jones, USS Dallas, USS Gilmer, USS McCook, USS Greene, USS Hopkins, USS Overton, USS John D. Edwards, USS Hulbert, USS Decatur, USS Smith Thompson, USS Pillsbury, USS Somers, USS Reuben James, USS Thompson, USS Branch, USS McFarland, USS Chandler, USS McCalla, USS Abel P. Upshur, USS Edwards, USS Sharkey, USS Turner, USS Aulick, USS Moody, USS Gillis, USS Litchfield, USS Lawrence, USS Satterlee, USS Sinclair, USS Semmes, USS Pruitt, USS Rodgers, USS Clemson, USS Putnam, USS Bancroft, USS Mason, USS Shirk, USS McCormick, USS MacLeish, USS Selfridge, USS Bulmer, USS Laub, USS Nicholas, USS Hatfield, USS Shubrick, USS Barker, USS Osmond Ingram, USS Sloat, USS William Jones, USS Bainbridge, USS Childs, USS Bailey, USS Reid, USS Osborne, USS King, USS Brooks, USS Dahlgren, USS Isherwood, USS Belknap, USS Henshaw, USS Swasey, USS S. P. Lee, USS Delphy, USS McLanahan, USS Sumner, USS Ballard, USS Graham, USS Meade, USS Farragut, USS Dale, USS Robert Smith, USS Lardner, USS Hull, USS James K. Paulding, USS Corry, USS Broome, USS Toucey, USS Bruce, USS Chauncey, USS Farenholt, USS Fuller, USS Reno, USS Breck, USS Kennedy, USS Melvin, USS Marcus, USS John Francis Burnes, USS Farquhar, USS Converse, USS Doyen, USS Charles Ausburn, USS Tingey, USS McDermut, USS Preston, USS Kidder, USS Billingsley, USS Meyer, USS Case, USS McCawley, USS Coghlan, USS Lamson, USS Morris, USS Macdonough, USS La Vallette, USS Mervine, USS Mullany, USS Flusser, USS Zeilin, USS Chase, USS Percival, USS Paul Hamilton. Excerpt: USS Alden (DD-211) was a Clemson-class destroyer of the United States Navy (USN). Serving during World War II, Alden is the only ship of the US Navy to have been named for Rear Admiral James Alden, Jr. (1810-1877). Alden was laid down on 24 October 1918 and launched on 14 May 1919 by William Cramp and Sons, sponsored by Miss Sarah Alden Dorsey, a niece of the late Rear Admiral Alden, and commissioned on 24 November 1919, Commander William Ancrum in command. Following shakedown training and post-shakedown repairs and alterations, Alden, subsequently reclassified from "Destroyer No 211" to DD-211 during the fleetwide assignment of alphanumeric hull numbers on 17 July 1920, sailed on 5 December 1919 for duty in European waters, proceeding to Constantinople, and then to Samsun, Turkey. Alden visited Adriatic ports during the spring of 1920, investigating political conditions and "showing the flag" to protect American interests in the area, her ports of call including Split, Gravosa, and Pula. During her trips along the Adriatic coast, she carried mail and passengers, and for a time served as station ship at Venice. Proceeding to Constantinople to participate in relief efforts for refugees from the Russian Civil War, she resumed her Adriatic operations so...